The San Jose provider of tape drives for corporate data storage named Janae Lee vice president of marketing. Previously, she served as president and chief executive officer at TimeSpring Software.

Bill Harrold

VirtualLogix

The Sunnyvale provider of real-time virtualization technology appointed Bill Harrold vice president of sales. He is former vice president of sales and business development at OpenClovis.

Cliff Liu

Cooley Godward Kronish

The Palo Alto law firm named Cliff Liu as a partner. His practice focuses on patent law, including patent prosecution and counseling, patent litigation support and patent issues that arise in business transactions.

Marcus Wu

Hanson Bridgett

The San Francisco law firm named Marcus Wu as a partner. He represents both public and private employers in executive compensation and employee benefit matters.

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